Another Challenge Christmas card

 

Good Morning Ladies,

Welcome to Wednesday ladies, we are mid way through another week, I remembered at 6am yesterday morning that I hadn't filled the girls Advent calendars, so I was sat on my bed, bleary eyed putting different little bits in their Fabric Advent calendars, I did lool into buying them one but they insisted on having their traditional one, (which I was glad of when I saw the price of the beauty calendars)!  I did get them a candle calendar last year to share but we just haven't been shopping to find the little things like that this year, because a) Covid/lockdown  b) Paul not being able to drive.  I managed to put a few different things in, one thing was these Chocolate lollipops that you stir into milk to make hot chocolate, I added them to a little bag with some mini marshmallows/candy canes to make the hot chocolate a bit more special, hopefully they will enjoy them.

We made the decision to not fill Matt & Becca's this year as neither of them will be coming over so it seemed pointless, I did offer to drop them off so that they could start their own traditions but they weren't fussed.  We then got onto the subject of Christmas day, I know that we have the option of mixing with other households but I just don't think it's worth the risk, Matt had suggested that he came to us for a couple of hours after visiting Alex's family, (mostly because he felt bad), I said no, as he would be spreading germs even more, I think that he is looking forwarrd to cooking his first Christmas dinner this year.  Becca's Restaurant in open and has quite a few bookings for Christmas day, so we won't be seeing her either, it will seem strange but it's going to be the same for all of us, these conversations are so hard but fingers crossed next Christmas will be the best ever, this year will either make us even more grateful for those family moments or think ''actually I like the peace and quiet, lets do this next year too''!! Paul's parents like some of you cannot remember the last time they had Christmas at home or on their own, they seem to be making the most of it, Paul's dad was due to have a big party on the 21st December for his 80th Birthday while they were in Birmingham for Christmas but that had to be cancelled too.  For me knowing now that last Christmas was Mum's last Christmas has made me realise how very precious our family get togethers are, so I felt really sad to think that Paul's parents were spending theirs on their own.

Today's card is one I made but I think I hadn't shared yet, it is quite a Clean and Simple Christmas card, I started by die cutting the Fir tree out of a piece of white card, I stamped the tree first in Balmy Blue ink, then die cut it, after die cutting it I popped the piece of card with the tree shaped aperture through the die cutting machine with a Snowfall Embossing folder (if I had embossed it first the die cutting would have flattened the embossing). 

I cut the card front slightly shorter than the card base and added a strip of Balmy Blue card to tie the colour of the tree to the card, I stamped the sentiment in the same ink and used a punch to create the flag ends to the banner. 

To finish the card I used a quicky glue pen to apply glue to some of the snowflakes and then added some glitter to them, just to give a little festive sparkle.  

I hope you like my card, it uses Categories:  Die Cut/ Embossing Folder/Punch

I hope that you all have a lovely day,

Love and huge hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx